Screen and Media Studies

A Graduate Certificate and Graduate Diploma are available to graduates who have not included Screen and Media Studies at an advanced level in their first degree. To complete a Graduate Diploma, students must take SMST207, SMST214, SMST302, and 60 further points at 300 level offered by Screen and Media Studies or approved by the Chairperson of Department.
For further details, contact the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Office.

To be eligible to be considered for enrolment in graduate papers in Screen and Media Studies, a student should normally have at least a B average in either the best three of their 300 level Screen and Media Studies papers or all their undergraduate Screen and Media Studies papers. Candidates for the MA in Screen and Media Studies should normally have a minimum B+ average pass in their BA(Hons) or PGDip(SMST).
To complete the Postgraduate Diploma in Screen and Media Studies, students must complete four 500 level Screen and Media Studies papers, including the compulsory paper SMST501. Within the Postgraduate Diploma and BA(Hons) a specialisation in Digital Cinema is available. Details of the specialisation requirements can be obtained from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
To complete a BA(Hons) in Screen and Media Studies, students must gain 120 points at 500 level, including at least 30 points in research (normally SMST591) and at least 30 points from papers listed for Screen and Media Studies.
To complete an MA in Screen and Media Studies, students must take a 120 point thesis, a 90 point thesis and 30 points from approved 500 level papers, or a 60 point dissertation and 60 points in approved 500 level papers.

The Master of Philosophy is a one year research-based degree in which students undertake a programme of approved and supervised research that leads to a thesis which critically investigates an approved topic of substance and significance, demonstrates expertise in the methods of research and scholarship, displays intellectual independence and makes a substantial original contribution to the subject area concerned, and is of publishable quality.

The Doctor of Philosophy is a two year research-based degree in which students undertake a programme of approved and supervised research that leads to a thesis which critically investigates an approved topic of substance and significance, demonstrates expertise in the methods of research and scholarship, displays intellectual independence and makes a substantial original contribution to the subject area concerned, and is of publishable quality.